EMEA nodes expanded to over 1Tbps of regional capacity distributed
across Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London

June 01, 2017 06:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Neustar,
Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information
services, today announced that it has tripled its global DDoS mitigation
network capacity reaching 4 Tbps across EMEA and Singapore. This places
the company within close reach of its goal of a 10 Tbps Global DDoS
Defence Network, which will be the world’s largest, most distributed and
technically advanced DDoS mitigation defence network, by early 2018.

In EMEA, Neustar has significantly expanded network capacity with an
increase of 244 percent from 320 Gbps to more than 1 Tbps distributed
across three nodes in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London alone. APAC also
has a new 200 Gbps node in Singapore, doubling the in-region capacity
with additional large nodes soon following. By Q1 2018, the Neustar
Global DDoS Defence Network will have 27 nodes distributed across all
regions.

“We are changing the model from a handful of scrubbing centres to a
globally scaled distributed model. This is a big departure from when I
started the DDoS defence industry,” said Barrett Lyon, Head of Security
Research and Development. “The capacity of our network will enable
Neustar to offer unrivalled mitigation capability and network
performance to keep our customers protected against any type of DDoS
attack.”

Delivering In-Region Detection & Mitigation at Scale

The expansion of Neustar’s global DDoS mitigation network meets the
scale and demands required to thwart modern DDoS attacks and deliver
future-proof levels of protection due to its construction design,
implementation and capacity. This fast-growing network of dedicated
in-region mitigation centres will also enable Neustar to improve traffic
routing performance for customers during attacks. With an increased
number of local detection and mitigation centres, Neustar is able to
redirect traffic to local scrubbing centres at the edge of the network,
closer to the source. By scrubbing a customer’s web traffic and
redelivering it locally rather than having to be backhauled to a
scrubbing centre that may be partway around the world, Neustar offsets
latency and restores network performance more quickly and effectively
resulting in faster, more efficient in-region mitigation and greater
customer value.

“The construction of our new DDoS network with regionalized nodes is a
game-changer for our customers,” says Lyon. “We now have the capability
to meet and defeat new attacks head-on, with localized scrubbing, so
customers don’t feel the impact to their networks. What we are building
is the proper evolution and sophistication of DDoS defence and it’s
unlike anything that is available on the market today”.

About Neustar Security Solutions

Security Solutions defend against network threats, inform you of
potential network vulnerabilities, accelerate online asset performance,
and monitor client website performance through multiple services and
offerings. Neustar will offer the largest, most distributed DDOS
mitigation network in the world with over 10 Tbps of capacity, and our
industry leading SiteProtect DDoS protection service ensures full
coverage in an attack. Our UltraDNS service manages 10% of all internet
traffic, routes over 1T queries a month and provides industry leading
uptime and 100% website availability. Neustar’s IP Intelligence is the
authoritative source of IP decisioning data on 99.99% of routable IP
addresses worldwide. Our 19+ years of unparalleled expertise ensures
that our customers are protected and optimized during normal business
practices and when unsolicited events occur. Our services ensure
customers network connectivity are protected and optimized whether in
crisis or just business as usual. We are trusted by many of the world’s
largest brands to keep their mission critical systems up and running.

About Neustar

Every day, the world generates roughly 2.5 quadrillion bits of data.
Neustar (NYSE: NSR) isolates certain elements and analyzes, simplifies
and edits them to make precise and valuable decisions that drive
results. As one of the few companies capable of knowing with certainty
who is on the other end of every interaction, we’re trusted by the
world’s great brands to make critical decisions some 20 billion times a
day. We help marketers send timely and relevant messages to the right
people. Because we can authoritatively tell a client exactly who is
calling or connecting with them, we make critical realtime responses
possible. And the same comprehensive information that enables our
clients to direct and manage orders also stops attackers. We know when
someone isn’t who they claim to be, which helps stop fraud and denial of
service before they’re a problem. Because we’re also an experienced
manager of some of the world’s most complex databases, we help clients
control their online identity, registering and protecting their domain
name, and routing traffic to the correct network address. By linking the
most essential information with the people who depend on it, we provide
more than 11,000 clients worldwide with decisions—not just data. More
information is available at https://www.neustar.biz